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Inglourious Basterds

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• War
• Drama

• 2009
• Quentin Tarantino
• 146 mins
• 18

Summary

Second World War action adventure directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt. After a Jewish woman's family are slaughtered by the Nazis, she changes her identity and flees to Paris, only to come face to face with the man responsible for the massacre. Meanwhile, Lt Aldo Raine leads a guerrilla squad of Jewish Americans into occupied territory to carry out a series of raids on the enemy, earning a fearsome reputation in the process.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Alan Jones

Cinema saves the world in writer/director Quentin Tarantino's disjointed history-bending homage to war movies. The multi-stranded plot includes Mélanie Laurent as a Jew avoiding Gestapo capture, Brad Pitt as a lieutenant commanding a dirty dozen of Nazi hunters and Diane Kruger as a German movie star/British double agent. All of which eventually roll into the main action: to blow up the Nazi High Command at the Paris premiere of one of Goebbels's propaganda films. Delivered as a series of witty dialogue-driven vignettes containing flashes of violent action, it's a long but entertainingly showy melodrama full of cineaste jokes, tricksy wordplay and references to film-makers GW Pabst, Leni Riefenstahl and Sergio Leone. Highlights include a resistance-bar rendezvous where English spy Michael Fassbender's Nazi-officer disguise is gradually penetrated, and Christoph Waltz's turn as a charmingly evil SS colonel. Meanwhile, on the superb soundtrack, recycled Ennio Morricone collides with the likes of David Bowie.

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8.4/10

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Cast

rolenameLt Aldo RaineBrad PittCol Hans LandaChristoph WaltzShosanna DreyfusMélanie LaurentBridget von HammersmarkDiane KrugerSergeant Donny DonowitzEli RothFredrick ZollerDaniel BrühlLt Archie HicoxMichael FassbenderSgt Hugo StiglitzTil SchweigerGeneral Ed FenechMike MyersPfc UtivichB J NovakPfc HirschbergSamm LevineNarratorSamuel L JacksonFrancesca MondinoJulie DreyfusAdolf HitlerMartin WuttkeWinston ChurchillRod TaylorEnzo G CastellariEnzo G CastellariPfc Omar UlmerOmar DoomMajor HellstromAugust DiehlPerrier LaPaditeDenis MénochetJoseph GoebbelsSylvester GrothCharlotte LaPaditeLéa SeydouxAmerican colonelBo Svenson

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Theatrical distributor

Universal

Released on

2009-08-14

Languages

English | German | Italian | French

Guidance

Violence, swearing.

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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